The Lacuna Project

lacuna (n.) a gap in a record where something should be

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Agency

Department of Justice Office of the Inspector General

Findings that rest on exhibits naming this entity

  • POL-6.2: DOJ's registrant files show 66 new FARA registrations in 2014, 150 in 2019 and 138 in 2025. DOJ's report for July to December 2025 lists 565 active registrants representing 858 foreign principals, and the inspector general counted 916 active registrations in 1987 and 360 at the end of 2014.
  • POL-6.3: The DOJ inspector general found in 2016 that DOJ brought seven criminal FARA cases from 1966 to 2015 and had not sought civil injunctive relief since 1991. The audit found that 62 percent of initial registrations were untimely and that the National Security Division does not track FARA cases it declines to prosecute.

Exhibits naming this entity

  • Exhibit 819 September 2016. U.S. Department of Justice, Office of the Inspector General: Audit of the National Security Division's Enforcement and Administration of the Foreign Agents Registration Act, Audit Division 16-24